https://cris.biu.ac.il/en/persons/liran-razinsky
Many downloadable PDF verison of the following papers can be found here:
https://biu.academia.edu/LiranRazinsky
Selected Publications (updated: January 2024)
Curious and not sure what to read? Check out perhaps “Everything: Totality and Self-Representation,” “Publish and Perish: Freud’s Claim to Literary Fame,” or “The Never-Ending Book: On ‘the dream of every writer’ in Jorge Semprun”.
Books
Razinsky, Liran, Freud, Psychoanalysis and Death (Cambridge University Press, 2013). 303 pages. Paperback edition: December 2014.
Edited Books and Special issues
Barjonet, Aurélie and Liran Razinsky (Eds.), Writing the Holocaust Today: Critical Perspectives on The Kindly Ones (Rodopi, 2012).
Razinsky, Liran (Ed.) Writing and Life, Literature and History: On Jorge Semprun. Special issue of Yale French Studies, 129, (2016).
Recent Articles and Chapters
Critique of Algorithms and Data:
Razinsky, Liran, “Better than they know themselves? Algorithms and Subjectivity,” Subjectivity 30 (2023) :394–416
Digital Memory and Self-Representation:
Razinsky, Liran, “The Dream of Absolute Memory: On Digital Self-Representation.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 31:2 (2020): 182-201.
Razinsky, Liran, “Everything: Totality and Self-Representation, from Past to Present.” SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism 46.3 (2017): 150-172.
Razinsky, Liran, “Littérature et données.” Compar(a)isons (Special issue: “La non-fiction, un genre mondial ?”) (2021), pp: 181-196.
Self-Representation (Literature)
Razinsky, Liran, “Psychoanalysis and Autobiography: Leiris, Freud and the Obstacle to Self-Knowledge.” Journal of Modern Literature 44.1 (2020): 129-147.
Razinsky, Liran, “Publish and Perish: Freud’s Claim to Literary Fame,” Journal of Modern Literature 39.4 (2016): 1-18.
For that category, see also in the current list, “Everything: Totality and Self-Representation,” “The Dream of Absolute Memory,” “The Never-Ending Book: On ‘the dream of every writer’ in Jorge Semprun” and “Littérature et données”
Literature (general)
Razinsky, Liran and Amos Goldberg: “Scheherazade in Palestine: Nation and Narration in Elias Khoury’s Gate of the Sun (Bab AlShams)”. Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 47.1 (2020): 51-74.
Razinsky, Liran, “Première rencontre avec la mort; Beauvoir, Leiris, Freud et Benjamin.” Psychiatrie Française (Special issue: “Souvenirs et reviviscences”) 48 (2018): 31-49.
Hebrew version:
Razinsky, Liran, “A First Encounter with Death,” Dapim LeMehkar Hasifrut 20 (Special issue: Children in Literature and Children Literature (2017): 28-47 [Hebrew].
Razinsky, Liran, “‘No longer a minister. Shall I be a worm?’: Grandeur, Renunciation, and Self-destruction in Albert Cohen’s Solal,” Dalhousie French Studies 106 (2015): 35-45.
Razinsky, Liran, “‘Rien qu’un spectateur’ : Image de soi, corporalité et sentiment d’existence dans Le Horla.” Studi Francesi 180 (2016): 435-446
Razinsky, Liran, “Writing and Torture in Elias Khoury’s Yalo.” In Culture and Cultural Critique. Edited by Dov Schwartz, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2017, 63-78.
Razinsky, Liran, “Bourreau et victime : Torture et écriture dans Yalo de Elias Khoury.” CRIN (Cahiers de Recherche des Instituts Néerlandais de Langue et de Littérature Française, 58, 2013: 115-125.
Psychoanalysis and Freud
Razinsky, Liran, “On the Need for Openness to the Humanities in Psychoanalysis.” Psychoanalytic Psychology (Special issue: “Psychoanalysis and the Humanities”), 33(1) (2016): S56-S74.
Razinsky, Liran, “Freud on War and Death,” in Freud, Einstein and the Next War [ איינשטיין ופרויד, והמלחמה הבאה]. Ofer Ashkenazi, David Bar-gal, Eran Rolnik (Eds.). Jerusalem: Carmel, 2018, 123-158.
Razinsky, Liran, “On Time, Transience and Literary Creation: Freud and Rilke a Century Ago,” Forum for Modern Language Studies 51.4 (2015): 464-479.
Hebrew version: Razinsky, Liran, “On the Passage of Time: Freud, Rilke and Weltschmerz. ” Mikan 19 (2019): 242-258. [in Hebrew]
Razinsky, Liran, “Psychoanalysis and Postmodernism: A Response to Dr. Jon Mills’s ‘Challenging Relational Psychoanalysis: A Critique of Postmodernism and Analyst Selfdisclosure’” Psychoanalytic Perspectives 14:3 (2017): 356-363.
Razinsky, Liran, “A Psychoanalytic Struggle with the Concept of Death: A new reading of Freud’s ‘Thoughts for the times on war and death’”. Psychoanalytic Review, 94(3), 2007, 355-88
Razinsky, Liran, “On the Strange Case of the Attitude of Psychoanalysis towards Death”. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 43(1), 2007: 149-164.[a review article]
Razinsky, Liran, “Driving Death Away: Death and Freud’s Theory of the Death Drive”. Psychoanalytic Review. 97, 2010:393-424.
Razinsky, Liran, “Against Death's Representability: Freud and the Question of Death’s Psychic Presence”. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 65, 2012: 332-357.
Razinsky, Liran, “How to look death in the eyes rather than shunning it: Freud and Bataille”. SubStance. A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism, 38(2), 2009:63-88.
Razinsky, Liran, “‘Un juif tout à fait athée’ … mais juif. Freud, Judaïsme et la question de la mort”. Perspectives, 12, 2005, 255-272.
For that category, look also at: “Publish and Perish: Freud’s Claim to Literary Fame,” “A First Encounter with Death,” “Première rencontre avec la mort; Beauvoir, Leiris, Freud et Benjamin” and “Psychoanalysis and Autobiography: Leiris, Freud and the Obstacle to Self-Knowledge.”
Holocaust literature
Razinsky, Liran, “La mort qu’il faut, la vie qu’on peut: Semprun and Writing after Death.” French Forum 44.1 (2019): 179-194.
Razinsky, Liran, “Editor’s preface: Writing and Life, Literature and History: On Jorge Semprun.” Yale French Studies, 129 (2016): 1-29.
[This paper is a helpful general introduction to the work of Semprun]
Razinsky, Liran, “The Never-Ending Book: On ‘the dream of every writer’ in Jorge Semprun”. Yale French Studies , 129 (2016): 150-169.
Razinsky, Liran, “Not the Witness We Wished For: Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones) as a Juncture of Excess and Testimony”. Modern Language Quarterly (MLQ), 71(2), 2010:175-196.
Razinsky, Liran, “History, Excess and Testimony in Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones).” French Forum, 33(3), 2009, 69-87.
Razinsky, Liran, “We are All the Same: Max Aue, Interpreter of Evil”. Yale French Studies, 121, 2012: 140-154.
Razinsky, Liran, “Introduction” In Writing the Holocaust Today: Critical Perspectives on The Kindly Ones. Edited by Liran Razinsky and Aurélie Barjonet (Rodopi, 2012), pp. 7-16.
Razinsky, Liran, “The Similarity of All Perpetrators in Les Bienveillantes.” In Writing the Holocaust Today: Critical Perspectives on The Kindly Ones. Edited by Liran Razinsky and Aurélie Barjonet (Rodopi, 2012), pp. 47-60.
Theory and political issues
Razinsky, Liran, “The State of Israel vs. the Humanities,” Theory and Criticism, (תיאוריה וביקורת) 42, 2014, 237-255 [essay in Hebrew]
“Subjectivity in The Age of Data: Algorithms, Big Data and Humans”. The Psychoanalytic Studies Program, Emory University. March 16, 2022.
“Subjectivity in The Age of Data: Big Data and Self understanding.” Lecture at colloquium of the Program for Psychoanalysis, Tel Aviv University. December 13, 2021.
“Freud and The Discovery of the Unconscious.” Lecture in the lecture series “Discoveries” of the Israeli Academy of Science. May 6, 2020. [Cancelled due to Covid]
“פסיכואנליזה ואוטוביוגרפיה: מישל לריס, פרויד, והמחסום בפני ידיעה עצמית”. Lecture at the Tel Aviv institute of Psychoanalysis, December 25, 2019.
“The Digital Archive of the Self: Self-Representation in a Changing World.” Lecture in the colloquium of the Porter School of Culture, Tel Aviv University, May 7 2018.
“Everything about oneself: Totality and autobiography.” Lecture at the Dept. of French, Yale University. April 11, 2017.
“Everything about oneself: Totality and autobiography.” Lecture at the Dept. of Romance Studies, Cornell University. April 13, 2017.
“Psychic Life and Fear of Death: A Reexamination of Freud’s Position”(“Seelenleben und Todesangst: Eine Überprüfung der Position Freuds”). Presentation at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Salon, October 21, 2015
“Psychic Life and Fear of Death: A Reexamination of Freud’s Position” (“Seelenleben und Todesangst: Eine Überprüfung der Position Freuds”). Presentation at the Wiener Psychoanalytische Akademie, Vienna, October 23, 2015
“Silencing Death - A Theoretical Perspective.” Presentation at the Clinical Symposium at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, NYU, March 7, 2014.
